Marriage in Church And State
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But something more was demanded. All these works were mere accumulations of disconnected matter, words of the Church uttered in varied accents of authority. In the year 1151 appeared the Concordantia discordantium Canonum, or Decretum of Gratian, which marks a new departure. It is a digest, laborious but uncritical, of all the heterogeneous matter previously collected ; canons and decretals are no longer set down side by side, to be read independently or compared with one another by the reader ...; they are dis- THE DECRETUM OF GRATIAN 137 perse d under systematic headings according to their subject, and illustrated by citations from Holy Scripture, by extracts from the writings of the Fathers and by comments of the author himself. The purpose of this study can easily be ascertained. Canon Law had hitherto been a mass of ecclesiastical traditions, maintained and administered by local hierarchies, agreeing with each other more closely than might be expected, but yet full of diversity, and kept in such unity as they possessed only by appeals to Rome and by the occasional supervision of the authority which the Popes had gathered to themselves in the course of ages.
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But something more was demanded. All these works were mere accumulations of disconnected matter, words of the Church uttered in varied accents of authority. In the year 1151 appeared the Concordantia discordantium Canonum, or Decretum of Gratian, which marks a new departure. It is a digest, laborious but uncritical, of all the heterogeneous matter previously collected ; canons and decretals are no longer set down side by side, to be read independently or compared with one another by the reader ...; they are dis- THE DECRETUM OF GRATIAN 137 perse d under systematic headings according to their subject, and illustrated by citations from Holy Scripture, by extracts from the writings of the Fathers and by comments of the author himself. The purpose of this study can easily be ascertained. Canon Law had hitherto been a mass of ecclesiastical traditions, maintained and administered by local hierarchies, agreeing with each other more closely than might be expected, but yet full of diversity, and kept in such unity as they possessed only by appeals to Rome and by the occasional supervision of the authority which the Popes had gathered to themselves in the course of ages.
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